forswearing
noun, verb
forswearing is a noun meaning “The act of one who forswears” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-S-W-E-A-R-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of forswearing is forswearings.
What does forswearing mean?
noun
- 1
The act of one who forswears.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of forswear
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of forswearing
- forswearings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is forswearing?
Forswearing appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does forswearing come from?
From Middle English forswerynge; equivalent to for- + swearing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).